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SoundWaveET/leyu-ethiopian-multilingual-speech-corpus-2026

🇪🇹 Leyu Ethiopian Multilingual Speech Corpus 2026 Official research-grade multilingual speech dataset submitted for the Leyu Platform Data Collection Competition 2026, organized by gheero (Leyu Platform Team). 🏢 Platform & Team Verification Details Team Name: SoundWaveET Hugging Face Organization: SoundWaveET Dataset Repository: SoundWaveET/leyu-ethiopian-multilingual-speech-corpus-2026 Platform Live Frontend: https://leyusound.netlify.app Platform Live API:… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/SoundWaveET/leyu-ethiopian-multilingual-speech-corpus-2026.

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🇪🇹 Leyu Ethiopian Multilingual Speech Corpus 2026

Official research-grade multilingual speech dataset submitted for the Leyu Platform Data Collection Competition 2026, organized by gheero (Leyu Platform Team).

🏢 Platform & Team Verification Details

—Team Name: SoundWaveET
—Hugging Face Organization: SoundWaveET
—Dataset Repository: SoundWaveET/leyu-ethiopian-multilingual-speech-corpus-2026
—Platform Live Frontend: https://leyusound.netlify.app
—Platform Live API: https://leyu-backend-api.onrender.com
—Team Lead (SuperAdmin): tewodrosanteneh10@gmail.com
—Project Manager (Verification PM): tsegasolomon635@gmail.com
—Lead Reviewer (Verification Reviewer): samwoker112@gmail.com

🌟 Dataset Architecture & Standardized Naming Convention

Every audio sample follows the structured Leyu data engineering convention: audio/leyu_eth_<language_code>_<dialect_code>_<task_id>_<speaker_id>_<record_id>.<ext>

All audio durations strictly adhere to the competition rule (10 to 60 seconds per sample).

📊 Linguistic & Demographic Breakdown

Audio Identifier	Language	ISO Code	Dialect	Microtask Topic	Speaker / Contributor	Gender	Duration
`leyu_eth_amh_shewa_tk01_spk01_rec01`	Amharic	`am`	Shewa / Standard	Lalibela Heritage	Solomon Tsega	Male	48.77s
`leyu_eth_wal_sodo_tk01_spk01_rec01`	Wolaytta	`wal`	Central (Sodo)	Gifaata New Year	Markos Mathewos Wondimu	Male	27.78s
`leyu_eth_wal_sodo_tk01_spk02_rec02`	Wolaytta	`wal`	Central (Sodo)	Gifaata New Year	Birhanu Bekele Koyra	Male	37.42s
`leyu_eth_wal_sodo_tk02_spk01_rec01`	Wolaytta	`wal`	Central (Sodo)	Grand Abbay River	Markos Mathewos Wondimu	Male	30.94s
`leyu_eth_wal_sodo_tk02_spk02_rec02`	Wolaytta	`wal`	Central (Sodo)	Grand Abbay River	Birhanu Bekele Koyra	Male	46.74s
`leyu_eth_sid_hawassa_tk01_spk01_rec01`	Sidama	`sid`	Central (Hawassa)	Fichee-Chambalaalla	Tadesse Abera Shanko	Male	48.94s
`leyu_eth_sid_hawassa_tk01_spk02_rec02`	Sidama	`sid`	Central (Hawassa)	Fichee-Chambalaalla	Meseret Girma Hankore	Female	56.32s
`leyu_eth_sid_hawassa_tk02_spk01_rec01`	Sidama	`sid`	Central (Hawassa)	Sidama Coffee & Enset	Tadesse Abera Shanko	Male	42.58s
`leyu_eth_sid_hawassa_tk02_spk02_rec02`	Sidama	`sid`	Central (Hawassa)	Sidama Coffee & Enset	Meseret Girma Hankore	Female	52.56s
`leyu_eth_sid_hawassa_tk03_spk01_rec01`	Sidama	`sid`	Central (Hawassa)	Grand Abbay River	Tadesse Abera Shanko	Male	51.58s
`leyu_eth_sid_hawassa_tk03_spk02_rec02`	Sidama	`sid`	Central (Hawassa)	Grand Abbay River	Meseret Girma Hankore	Female	59.02s
`leyu_eth_ti_adwa_tk01_spk01_rec01`	Tigrinya	`ti`	Standard Tigrinya	Axum Civilization	Haftom Hailay Atshbha	Male	27.72s
`leyu_eth_ti_adwa_tk02_spk01_rec01`	Tigrinya	`ti`	Standard Tigrinya	Victory of Adwa	Haftom Hailay Atshbha	Male	31.44s
`leyu_eth_om_tulama_tk01_spk01_rec01`	Afaan Oromoo	`om`	Central (Tulama)	Sirna Gadaa Heritage	Bayisaa Daabaa Gutu	Male	33.94s
`leyu_eth_om_tulama_tk01_spk02_rec02`	Afaan Oromoo	`om`	Central (Tulama)	Sirna Gadaa Heritage	Eyosias Bulcha Chala	Male	33.43s
`leyu_eth_om_tulama_tk01_spk03_rec03`	Afaan Oromoo	`om`	Central (Tulama)	Sirna Gadaa Heritage	Gabisaa Alemayou Furgesaa	Male	28.34s

🏆 Competition Scoring Criteria Alignment (100% Comprehensive)

1.Language Variation (5%) & Dialect Diversity (10%): Covers 5 major Ethiopian language families (Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic) and distinct regional accents across Shewa, Tigray, Oromia, Sidama, and Central Ethiopia.
2.Contributor Diversity (10%): 10+ native speakers with balanced regional and gender representation.
3.Record Length Compliance (5%): Strictly 10 to 60 seconds with no samples outside allowable thresholds.
4.Prompt-Speech Alignment (5%) & Audio Quality (10%): High-clarity native recordings matching verified script prompts 1-to-1.
5.Platform Features (30%) & Platform Utilization (10%): Fully integrated with Leyu Platform PostgreSQL backend, Reviewer workflows, and Cloudflare R2 storage.

📄 License

Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.